I don't understand the terminology for any of this, but when I upgraded to the latest firefox, I lost the tab feature that allows you to use the arrow to change tabs.
Very useful when you might have hundreds of tabs open doing a search.
And with session manager, I keep thousands of tabs in memory.

You can still get this behavior, you just need to focus it using the keyboard(e.g. using Cmd/Ctrl+K then Tab).

Large animated video clip GIFs slow down my browser. The effect is cumulative, so, for example, if there are several posts from someone who uses a video clip of a goat stomping on a man as a signature, my browser will freeze up for as much as a minute when the page first loads.

Less nerdy visitors here may not realize that the animated GIFs are causing their browser to slow down or freeze up. They may think that the forum itself is very very slow. They may find it helpful to know that:

On Firefox and Internet Explorer, you can press the Escape key to stop animated images from playing. Or, if AdBlock is installed in Firefox, right click on the image to block it permanently.

Chrome and Safari do not have a built in way to block images. On a Mac, I think the easiest way is to just block the website that the offending signature loads from, by editing the /etc/hosts file and adding the line:
127.0.0.1 4gifs.com

rodiponer wrote:Large animated video clip GIFs slow down my browser. The effect is cumulative, so, for example, if there are several posts from someone who uses a video clip of a goat stomping on a man as a signature, my browser will freeze up for as much as a minute when the page first loads.

Less nerdy visitors here may not realize that the animated GIFs are causing their browser to slow down or freeze up. They may think that the forum itself is very very slow. They may find it helpful to know that:

On Firefox and Internet Explorer, you can press the Escape key to stop animated images from playing. Or, if AdBlock is installed in Firefox, right click on the image to block it permanently.

Chrome and Safari do not have a built in way to block images. On a Mac, I think the easiest way is to just block the website that the offending signature loads from, by editing the /etc/hosts file and adding the line: 127.0.0.1 4gifs.com

You know something, if animated gifs slow down your internet experience, IT REALLY IS YOUR COMPUTER.

Geeezz! What are yall running, 486's?

If you have at least a pentium 4 with 512 ram, animated gifs should not have any affect on your browser. PERIOD!

This is a fact. If you do have at minimum these specs and you are experiencing slow responses, then there is definitely something wrong with your computer.

On the mac side, you would have to be running a Mac classic to have any problems.

Sorry, it just kills me a topic like this.

Time to come out of the stone ages and get with the technology folks.
You have enough money to go to the playa but not enough to invest on your computer?

The only thread on this entire board that should affect anyone's browser is the " MY FAVORITE MOVIE ON YOUTUBE (TODAY) IS..." Thread.

Yes, it should work with nearly all of your software. Only older programs made before unicode, or more modern ones where the programmer just didn't care about internationalization, will not recognize the new language pack.

I found some possibly useful firefox add-ons and many indian programs.

You can find many more by changing the language setting, but without fonts, I can't translate!!!

As I suspected, there is far more than the english search engines pull up.
You can search in other databases if you can get a link started by even a crude translation.
I have multi-linked through chains I can't read and often find wonderful things.
Knowing country net addresses helps too.
The Complete Internet book I found sounds like a joke, but it contains much of this sort of background info.

rodiponer wrote:Yes, it should work with nearly all of your software. Only older programs made before unicode, or more modern ones where the programmer just didn't care about internationalization, will not recognize the new language pack.

I found some software that translates stuff to unicode.
I have never heard of it before.

rodiponer wrote:I haven't done this since Windows 2000, but back then, the best way was to download the language pack from Microsoft.

I think I found the same one.
Most seem to only operate the system in other languages, but I found some that will do japanese, chinese and korean.
It seems the pdf software is more powerful so far though.

Some of the microsoft downloads appear to do simple translation for some phrases.

Don't know anything about 7 either except some say it's almost the sameas Vista. Guess we're stuck with whatever Gates jams down our throat(or is it up our ass) Of course there's Mac's or Unix.

Talked with my previous boss the other day, they are running W7 on two machines. both users are tech software writers, engineers, IT dudes. they both like W7, say it feels kinda like XP, but more intuitive. Comment about Vista was..yeah it's just over the horizon, it'll be right someday....not

My Windows XP is stuck in a start-up to restart loop. It won't start Windows. I've tried safe mode and last working configuration, but it just starts to load Xp and then goes into restart over and over. I figure I've picked up a trogan or worm virus. Any Help?

Re: iPad: What imbecile decided that it didn't need USB? Is this just a plan to rob their (already accustomed to being fleeced) consumers on proprietary peripherals? Yet another "revolutionary" apple product that does something not-as-well as an existing and less expensive product, while at the same time locking its users into a unilaterally-controlled media outlet.

Archos9 FTW!

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

Ranger Genius wrote:Re: iPad: What imbecile decided that it didn't need USB? Is this just a plan to rob their (already accustomed to being fleeced) consumers on proprietary peripherals? Yet another "revolutionary" apple product that does something not-as-well as an existing and less expensive product, while at the same time locking its users into a unilaterally-controlled media outlet.

bet it doesn't have any 8", 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disk drives either...

Ugly Dougly wrote:Where's a good place online to sell an old BMW? My friend has one and she tried Craigslist to no avail. I think that a BMW-specialized website would attract the best buyers. Any ideas?